Ghost Trees: Nature and People in a London Parish

by Bob Gilbert

There are ornamental apples too, the crab apple species, though they are not as numerous as the cherries. Among them I had found the red-fruited John Downie, the bright yellow Golden Hornet,

This offers some names of the crab apples I see in gardens.

Victorian trilogy of street trees,

These three trees are plane, lime and horse chestnut

Each individual seed sits in an elongated pod attached to the top end of a papery wing or blade. The technical name for this type of fruit is an ‘amara’ but they are commonly known as keys.

The seeds of the ash: